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Canon SX50 Specs (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Roy C
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franknotes
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Roy's referring to Digital Photo Professional (Canon's image processing software) and Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
Once you have saved settings to C1 any changes will not be maintained unless you :- make the change and then re-save to CI.
You are just changing while in C1 without re-saving .
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Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
DPP is the Canon software that came free with your Camera - Digital Photo Professional.
CS5 is a version of Photoshop.
edit: I see Frank has already answered this.
Thank you Roy,have seen to that now with your help,hope it helps some one else some time.
Chris
Chris.S
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Photos taken today, yesterday and Thursday.
I was surprised to get the Tern in flight, i used High Speed Burst HQ in scenes. I used the Macro setting for the Butterfly too.
The rest were shot in RAW.
Better quality butterfly here http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesbeams87/8665229607/in/photostream
I was surprised to get the Tern in flight, i used High Speed Burst HQ in scenes. I used the Macro setting for the Butterfly too.
The rest were shot in RAW.
Better quality butterfly here http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesbeams87/8665229607/in/photostream
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Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
Hi Shezza, When you shoot in RAW there are some adjustments you can make in the RAW state but RAW's have to be converted to be usable. I like doing a lot of the further processing work in Photoshop (like levels, shadows/highlights, selective noise reduction and selective sharpening....). I convert the RAW into a 16 bit tiff before sending to Photoshop for further editing. Only when I have completely finished editing the shot do I finally convert to a 8 bit jpeg for web use.
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Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
Very nice set Chris :clap::clap: You did well with the flyers, one advantage with this little cam is that the depth of field is far greater than with DSLR lens so you have a bit more leeway with nailing the focus for flyers.
I must admit that I have not really tried BIF with the SX50 as I thought the AF was far too slow - I guess the hit rate is going to low but I must have a crack sometime.
I finally got around to installing an EXIF viewer, and I see that the exposure time was only 1/30. I would say that this is an excellent shot for a compact camera given that it was hand held and the birds were moving.
I wonder if the ISO 1600 quality would be good enough to improve a shot like this by getting it down to 1/60. It would obviously be grainier, but if it's a choice between grainy and blurry then there's probably a sweet spot that's best.
The reason I'm harping on about this shot is because of the extreme distance. You can show me all the sharp shots you like, but if they were taken 5m from your bird feeder then just about any camera can take reasonable shots at that distance, and the impressive sharpness isn't representative of what I'll get in the field.
(This belated reply is in relation to the pictures with the posting at http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=2705108&postcount=635)
Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
One of the very best uses of a little cam like the SX50 is for record shots of distant birds - ideal in the field for the birder with a tripod and scope. It is much easier than messing around with a digiscoping set-up that many birders use.
Correct. I don't own a scope but on one occasion I was easily able to identify what was little more than a pale dot on the sea through the binoculars as a breeding plumage Red-Throated Diver by taking a photo with the SX50.
I must say that the Tern-in-flight shots above are very impressive! I attempted to capture a Sandwich Tern in flight yesterday (all be it an extremely distant one) with hilariously bad results...
Since I agree with Pshute regarding the usefulness of these heavily processed shots of birds taken just a few yards away, I thought I would include some shots I took a few days ago with a range of distances. Remember I'm a complete novice and all photos were taken on a bright but hazy day and are lightly cropped.
Twite - 5 yards away
White Wagtail - about 15 yards
Whimbrel - 40+ yards
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I think you may have overestimated the distance, Greenwell. If you have Google Earth use the ruler tool and have a look at 300 yards... it's a long way away....
In low contrast situation the Canons 30/40/50 have a bit of trouble focusing but may still take a shot. I often look around for something in the same plane to focus on. The AF should allow ok results down to 1/30 second if you are not shaking too much with the cold.
I like to place my elbows on a support rock/branch/ground to improve the success rate.
Neil
Atricapilla
Still Wandering
Hi,correct the bird shown i have since checked on google and was 175 yards,i did take quiet a few shots that day and yes one was ver 400 but it was not the one shown,sorry about that never thought of using google till i saw it on here.
These are a few shots taken this morning.
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Wildmoreway
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I would be interested to see the exif info for the shot of the Comma.
I think you will find this camera will be great for holiday shots.
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Chris.S
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Thanks. I've not tried many BIF either and the tern is the best i've had yet. Only others i've had were Kestrel which was hovering and a Barn owl.
Hi, the exif info is here on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesbeams87/8665229607/meta/in/photostream
